Is Reflectance Printing Here To Stay?

In this scientific project, a group of researchers decided to find a way to make normal 2D prints react to light the same way 3D objects react to it. As you can see it works really great, but the photo quality is still not so good. I'm sure that with some more research and development it will get much better. This can change the way we print and see physical pictures the same way Lytro Changed the way people take pictures.

What do you think? Is this the future of printing?

To read more about this project and the technology behind it click here.

Noam Galai is a Senior Fstoppers Staff Writer and NYC Celebrity / Entertainment photographer. Noam's work appears on publications such as Time Magazine, New York Times, People Magazine, Vogue and Us Weekly on a daily basis.

6 Comments

lighting from the photographer's standpoint would probably have to change dramatically. We'd have to start embracing on camera flash not to give too much depth as the depth and shadows would need to be produced post print. crazy.

And even then the real trick would be printing onto paper that has these kinds of dots at the resolution of the printer's dpi...where the printer could accurately place ink dots on the paper's dots in proper alignment. That would be a print!